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"I don’t get it Why would you care about me?"
Ethan settled into the chair next to Pete, popped the can, and took a long drink of the ice cold beer "I educated myself on everyone out here before I set out I like to knoho I’uy who had a bad crush on irl"
"Who told you that?" Pete asked a bit defensively
"Everyone in town" Ethan flashed his teeth as he flung out his areneral consensus is that you were lovesick"
"It’s true that I loved her," Pete conceded, his brief"I loved her e froh hisover hihtly furrowed as he waited for an answer
"I don’t know"
"You’re an interesting guy, Pete The sa, you ended up in the hospital with a stroke The hospital paperwork said you suffered fro a little deeper it said you had also lost a lot of blood"
Pete looked at the man sharply "You went to the hospital?"
"Like I said, I did my research So, Pete, the weekend the love of your life supposedly was e, you end up in the hospital fro it a stroke Meanwhile, her body goes ns that she rave and went home for a nice shower"
"How do you know all that?"
"Police reports"
Pete gulped down the rest of his beer His hands were shaking He suddenly felt the need to be shit-faced As the blackness of the night settled into the trees around the ca the branches
Ethan reached over to snag Pete another beer froan"
"The police cover things up that they can’t explain Especially when higher ups tell them to" Ethan handed hi her back up for Satanic rituals or so That he was all obsessed with her and wanted to use her for black ic"
"Yet, Professor Sumner kills himself outside of Shreveport Kind of convenient don’t you think?"
"He felt guilty?"
Ethan guffawed "Sure Guilt He kills fourteen people and feels guilt I seriously doubt a uilt"
"You think he didn’t kill them?"
"Nope" Ethan nodded "He didn’t"
"Then who did?"
"Amaliya"
Pete stood up so fast, his chair skidded back and toppled over "Bullshit!"
Ethan wasn’t affected by Pete’s explosion and slightly shrugged "Think about it She dies Is buried in the forest But she clie kids ends up dead, she disappears The truck she was using shows up at her dad’s house, and you end up in the hospital Mr Rusk from the Dixie Motel tells me that you arrived at the motel with a dark-haired woman in the car He never saw her face, but we both knoho that was, don’t we?"
"I don’t recall," Pete mumbled He finished the beer in three hard ss His head began to buzz, but he liked the feeling
"But you’re starting too, aren’t you? You’re starting to see her face You’re starting to remember that she was the one in the room with you"
Pete ran his hand over his nu an erection as randoes from his dreams drifted over his mindscape "Uh Maybe"